TY - JOUR
T1 - Direct functional connectivity between the thalamus (Vim) and the contralateral motor cortex
T2 - Just a single case observation or a common pathway in the human brain?
AU - Sarrigiannis, Ptolemaios G.
AU - Zhao, Yifan
AU - He, Fei
AU - Wei, Hualiang
AU - Billings, Stephen A.
AU - Lawrence, Sarah
AU - Rowe, Jeremy
AU - Romanowski, Charles
AU - Hoggard, Nigel
AU - Rao, Dasappaiah Ganesh
AU - Grünewald, Richard
AU - Khan, Aijaz
AU - Hadjivassilliou, Marios
AU - Yianni, John
PY - 2015/11/1
Y1 - 2015/11/1
N2 - In this case report we present in vivo evidence of direct bilateral cortico-thalamic connectivity on a patient with fragile-x tremor ataxia syndrome who underwent deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery for bilateral severe rest and kinetic tremor. We use very short latency cortical evoked responses (CER) as evidence of a direct anatomical pathway between the thalamus and the ipsilateral and contralateral cortex. CERs with various latencies have been previously reported from patients undergoing DBS for intractable tremor and from experimental models in primates [1], [2], [3], [4].
AB - In this case report we present in vivo evidence of direct bilateral cortico-thalamic connectivity on a patient with fragile-x tremor ataxia syndrome who underwent deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery for bilateral severe rest and kinetic tremor. We use very short latency cortical evoked responses (CER) as evidence of a direct anatomical pathway between the thalamus and the ipsilateral and contralateral cortex. CERs with various latencies have been previously reported from patients undergoing DBS for intractable tremor and from experimental models in primates [1], [2], [3], [4].
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U2 - 10.1016/j.brs.2015.08.006
DO - 10.1016/j.brs.2015.08.006
M3 - Letter
AN - SCOPUS:84955742066
SN - 1935-861X
VL - 8
SP - 1230
EP - 1233
JO - Brain Stimulation
JF - Brain Stimulation
IS - 6
ER -